This is smart. Jason Fried of 37signals has written a post about the design review process. As he writes, “over the past couple days I’ve been writing down every question I’ve been asking when I look at a design-in-progress.”

It’s a really useful list, and worth taking a look at the whole thing, but here are the first ten questions:

1. What does it say?
2. What does it mean?
3. Is what it says and what it means the same thing?
4. Do we want that?
5. Why do we need to say that here?
6. If you stopped reading here, what’s the message?
7. What’s the take away after 8 seconds?
8. How does this make you feel?
9. What’s down below?
10. How else can we say this?

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    Super smart idea, always be asking questions and certainly write them down. A lot of the questions he asks are important...

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    Always good to remember..

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36. eununcadisseadeuss answered: I think you should ask the questions that you think you should do … My opinion the right questions
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